"Strategic Investments and Competition Under Uncertainty in the ASEAN/AEC: Real Options and Game Theory" defended by Klaangjai Sangwichitr at School of Management, Alliant International University, April 9, 2014 (Chair)

"The CS Model - A Flow of Funds Based Framework for Analyzing Sovereign Credit Risks in an International Credit Chain Economy: An Adaptation, Extension and Empirical Analysis," defended by Minet Mucka at Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, March 28, 2008 (Committee member).

"Multi - Fractal Modelling and Simulations of the US Term Structure" defended by Sutthisit Jamdee at Graduate School of Management, Kent State University, April 18, 2005 (Chair)

"Wavelet MRA of Index Patterns Around Stock Market Shocks," defended by Rossitsa Yalamova at Graduate School of Management, Kent State University, August 6, 2003 (Chair).

Editorial Review

Research Council of the Indian Institute of Finance (publisher of Finance India)

Investment Management and Financial Innovation

European Journal of Social Sciences

The ICFAI Journal of Financial Risk Management

European Journal of Scientific Research

The European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science

Community Service

Member at Large of World Council of Alumni of International House, New York

Founding Member and Treasurer of Columbia University Club Singapore

Fellow of London Goodenough Trust Fellowship

Fellow of the Society of Columbia Scholars

Personal Interests

History of the American Revolution and the U.S Constitution; History of Central Asia and the Silk Road; Geopolitics of Naval Powers; Dutch 18th Century Cooking; Target Shooting

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Brief Biography

Dr. Cornelis Los is a professor of finance at Alliant School of Management. His career has been dual and global. First, after obtaining his Ph.D. in Economics (1984) from Columbia University in New York City, he has been a professional Senior Economist on Wall Street for both the U.S.'s Fed and Japan's Nomura, and the Chief U.S. Economist for Dutch ING Bank.

Second, he has been an academic Professor of Banking and Finance, e.g., at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (where he co-designed and organized two academic financial trading rooms), at Adelaide and Deakin Universities in Australia, and at Kent State University in Ohio (where he co-designed and organized the new M.Sc. in Financial Engineering together with a derivatives trading room).

Half a decade ago, he taught for the London School of Economics in Kazakhstan and was a Visiting Professor of Financial Management at the Peter Drucker Graduate School of Management at the Claremont Graduate University. Most recently he was a Professor of Finance at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, where he designed and realized a $0.5mln financial Trading Room in the new Markin Hall business school, with a five-year operational budget of another $0.5mln.

He has written several books on Computational Finance and on Financial Market Risk). He designed new courses on financial trading and market microstructure using internet-based financial trading network simulators, and on strategic project valuation using real option theory. He is developing a new M.Sc. in Financial Engineering, focused on commodity, energy and weather markets. He has supervised MA, MSc and PhD theses in Finance and Economics. His avocations are: financial risk management and financial engineering, market model identification from high frequency financial data, and in-depth research of financial market microstructures.